The BEST episodes written by Bryce Zabel
#1 - Days of Rage
M.A.N.T.I.S. - Season 1 - Episode 3
Several youths involved in an experiment focusing on mind augmentation receive a remarkable increase in their intelligence. However, when the drug they are taking induces the teens to follow some of their more primitive instincts, they embark on a series of violent and dangerous escapades, and it's up to the M.A.N.T.I.S to save them and their victims.
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#2 - Gloves Off
M.A.N.T.I.S. - Season 1 - Episode 6
When the MANTIS uncovers an organization which runs underground, to-the-death bloodsport matches, he helps a man who is forced to participate.
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L.A. Law - Season 4 - Episode 18
A family whose home was destroyed in a drug raid charge the police with excessive force; Van Owen ponders her sentencing of an 8-year-old cop killer; Sifuentes and Rosalind clash over a test case involving a liquor company's negligence; Marilyn unleashes Brackman's passion
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#5 - Progenitor
M.A.N.T.I.S. - Season 1 - Episode 16
A crazy scientist kidnaps Miles and replaces him with a clone.
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#6 - To Prey in Darkness
Dark Skies - Season 1 - Episode 18
When film of Truman's meeting with the aliens is stolen, Bach sends Loengard to see Carl Hertzog, a retired Majestic doctor. After denying any knowledge of its whereabouts, Hertzog is hanged to death in what appears to be suicide. Then, as Albano discovers the film in the hands of TV personality Dorothy Kilgallen, Kim learns that her child is destined for greatness with the Hive. Once Loengard and Juliet track her down to New York, Kilgallen asks reporter Ed Hawkins to air the film if anything should happen to her. And when Kilgallen refuses to heed Loengard's warnings, Albano's surveillance of her apartment spots Steele trying to recover the film. But before anyone can get there, she is killed. Meanwhile, as Kim infiltrates CBS as an assistant to their network news anchorman, Albano turns to network president and Majestic board member William Paley for help.
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#7 - Unchain My Heart
Dallas - Season 13 - Episode 15
Cliff gives a television interview following the committee's decision on the tanker collision. Bobby gives April an engagement ring but then they break up over three Ewing Oil fields which April bought behind Bobby's back and then unknowingly sold to Weststar. Cliff meets public relations expert Stephanie Rogers. J.R., Cally and John Ross travel to Pride, Texas to help Miss Ellie put the town back on the oil map. Clayton remains sceptical about the new Pride venture. James and Michelle make up. Bobby warms James against doing business out of Ewing Oil offices without his knowledge. Bobby thinks he saw Pamela.
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#8 - The Soul Can't Rest
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven - Season 1 - Episode 1
A year after being murdered by a gang, Eric Draven comes back from the grave. He can't figure out if he's alive, or dead, and doesn't know why he has returned. Meanwhile, he is haunted by the memories of his murdered fiance, Shelly.
#9 - Bloodlines
Dark Skies - Season 1 - Episode 20
Alerted to a planet size object transmitting a message to Earth, Bach orders Dr Carl Sagan to decode it while he keeps the news from Majestic's directors. And though he's kept in the dark, Albano agrees to ask the captured Gray to shed some light on its contents. Meanwhile, Loengard and Juliet use Dr Timothy Leary to find the San Francisco lab where the Hive has been producing a hallucinogen under the direction of Steele and Kim. And when Kim tosses the drug into John's face, it causes him to see their son aboard a Hive ship.
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#10 - We Shall Overcome
Dark Skies - Season 1 - Episode 10
Following a message from his congressional colleague Mark Simonson, John and Kim are drawn to Meridian, Mississippi, where the struggle for voting rights is clouded by the disappearance of three civil rights workers. As Kim senses the Hive's presence in the town, news that Loengard is in Mississippi prompts Bach to act. Then, after being contacted by Etta Mae Tillman, John and Kim are led to where Simonson is hiding after escaping the deadly fate of his three missing civil rights co-workers.
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#11 - Thou Shalt Not Kill (1)
M.A.N.T.I.S. - Season 1 - Episode 10
The MANTIS is left for dead when, Solomon Box, the MANTIS' chief nemesis, uses his political muscle and the authorities perception that the MANTIS is a vigilante, to persuade the police to hunt him down.
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#12 - Revelation (2)
M.A.N.T.I.S. - Season 1 - Episode 11
The Port Columbia police force, under the direction of Solomon Box, continues it's attempt to hunt down the MANTIS.
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#13 - The Warren Omission
Dark Skies - Season 1 - Episode 13
With the Warren Commission looking into the assassination of his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asks John to testify. Despite Bach's warning, Kennedy paves the way with his own testimony before Loengard describes the events that led him into Majestic. And while John has a long way to go before convincing a skeptical Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and his fellow commission members of his story, Bach decides to thoroughly discredit him anyway.
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#14 - Strange Visitor
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 1 - Episode 3
Lois and Clark battle a military UFO investigator determined to destroy Superman.
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#15 - The Green, Green Glow of Home
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 1 - Episode 9
Lois and Clark investigate a strange green crystal found in Clark's hometown that depletes Superman of his powers.
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#16 - Moving Targets
Dark Skies - Season 1 - Episode 3
Following the Kennedy assassination, Bach heads for Dallas to recover the artifact Loengard used to prove the alien invasion to the President. However, when he's sent by Robert Kennedy to get it too, John meets Jesse Marcel, a government official who was in New Mexico when President Truman learned firsthand of the invasion, and who claims that an alien craft long suspected to have crashed there was really shot down.
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#17 - All Shook Up
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 1 - Episode 13
After trying to deflect a gigantic meteor on a collision course with Earth, Superman falls back to the planet in a complete state of amnesia.
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#18 - Get a Life
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven - Season 1 - Episode 3
In the Land of the Dead, Shelly meets a young woman, Elise Franklin (Ingrid Kavelaars), whose fiance has been framed for her murder. Draven, meanwhile is about to be evicted from the loft he and Shelly shared when she communicates the injustice to him. The loft is obviously a link-point between their two worlds and must be saved at all costs. Detective Albrecht, who has formed an uneasy alliance with Draven, advises him to ""get a life and pay the rent,"" so when India Reyes (Julie Dreyfus) offers him a job at the Blackout Club, he agrees. Draven sets out to find justice for Gil Hedges (Peter Fleming) and expose the real murderer, the dead woman's father, John T. Franklin (Donnelly Rhodes). After Draven establishes Hedges' innocence, Elise is freed to move on to the Light and asks Shelly to join her. Shelly, however, isn't ready to leave -- she is waiting for Draven.
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#19 - Souled Out
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven - Season 1 - Episode 2
Draven finds the man who ordered his and Shelly's murders, but as he uncovers the truth is he strong enough to battle an evil that seems to have the same supernatural powers he possesses as The Crow? Draven's battle with the gang of contract killers has left his old club, The Blackout, in shambles. The badly beaten gang boss and club manager is in the hospital under psychiatric care, babbling incoherently about the dead returning from the grave. The rest of his gang is also under arrest but Draven is no closer to knowing who ordered his death. While at The Blackout, Draven hears the song he sang for Shelly on the night they died being played by his old band. Although never written down, the song is now owned by the band's new recording company, Reyes International, which also has an interest in the club. Draven thinks this is the key to the murders, and while at the company's corporate offices he runs into the head of the recording company, Mace Reyes, who appears to be an invalid, and
#20 - Birds Of A Feather
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven - Season 1 - Episode 15
In shocking turn of events Draven is set free by Judge Morrison but life on the outside is still bleak. Albrecht has been demoted to a beat cop and Draven feels terribly alone without Shelly until he meets another Spirit Crow. Citing that the jury ignored his instructions, Judge Morrison overturns Draven's conviction and sets him free in a dramatic reversal of fortune. But a cloud of suspicion still hangs over Draven, and, because of his association with Albrecht, over Albrecht as well. As if that weren't enough, Albrecht's girlfriend Cordelia, leaves him. Adding insult to injury, Albrecht is demoted to beat cop and Capshaw assumes his desk in the detective division. Treated as a pariah by the public at the Blackout, Draven goes outside where he sees a woman demolish two strong attackers in an alley fight. To his shock, Draven discovers that, she, too, is a Crow. He befriends the angry, confused woman and helps her learn the truth about her former life. She was the happily married, suc
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#21 - Before I Wake
The Crow: Stairway to Heaven - Season 1 - Episode 9
The loft portal has vanished and despite his frantic efforts, Eric Draven can't connect with Shelly. Desperate to help him snap out of his profound depression, Sarah suggests he go to a psychiatrist for hypnosis. Under Dr. John Dorsett's (Don Most) care, Draven regresses into a former traumatic life, as a Native American called Blackfeather. Draven's alter ego had just as troubled a past as the present incarnation. Although he found his soulmate in a missionary's daughter who defied the wishes of her controlling, bigoted father to be with him, Blackfeather was murdered. He then returned to rescue Rebecca Morgan (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Shelly Webster) from the men who killed him and then threatened her. To Sarah, sitting in on the session, it seems like Draven is out of his mind; however, a Native American Masters' student, Jane Cogo, confirms that the dialect Draven is speaking is genuine. Draven can't come out of hypnosis, however, and Blackfeather seems stuck in the now
#22 - First Steps
M.A.N.T.I.S. - Season 1 - Episode 1
The MANTIS has to fight with a businessman who is trying to get ahold of a deadly virus, which was ment to be destroyed days ago.
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